Tag Archives: other people’s books

A Handful of Plugs

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Cora

I’ve plugged my own latest release, so here are plugs for other people’s books and events. Among the many how-to books about self-publishing out there, Let’s Get Digital by David Gaughran is the gold standard. Now the sequel (of sort) … Continue reading →

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The Great Indie Publishing War of 2013

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Cora

It all started at Salon, when a writer called John Winters stated that he was a self-publishing failure and also likened self-publishing to masturbation, which naturally did not go down all that well with many indie writers. Never mind that … Continue reading →

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Indies Ante Portas or The Real Shocker about this Year’s Awards Nominations

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Cora

In the past few days, the online SFF community has been ablaze with debates and discussions about the various genre awards, most notably the Hugos and the Clarke Award. I got into the frey, mainly by linking to other people’s … Continue reading →

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Posting sockpuppet reviews is not free speech

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Cora

Joe Konrath defends the practices of buying fake reviews, leaving malicious one star reviews to trash the books of rivals and leaving sockpuppet reviews as free speech. Because an author deliberately leaving one star reviews on books by rival using … Continue reading →

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“How I sold one million e-books…” revisited

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Cora

First of all, Heartache is the featured new release at the Short Story Blog today. In other news, the New York Times published a lengthy article about a “pay for fake e-book reviews” service. One of the service’s patrons was … Continue reading →

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Indie publishing, Politics and the Future of the Novel

Posted on August 25, 2012 by Cora

Kristine Kathryn Rusch offers a brilliant take on Ewan Morrison’s screed that there will be no more professional writers in the future. I already skewered that particular missive by Mr Morrison here. If Morrison keeps this up, he’ll need his … Continue reading →

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More on the New Pulp Fiction

Posted on July 18, 2012 by Cora

The New Pulp Fiction discussion (my previous two entries can be found here and here) is still going on. At Do Some Damage, Brian Lindenmuth divides the new pulp fictioneers into two camps, one camp which writes new stories in … Continue reading →

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The New Pulp Fiction

Posted on July 14, 2012 by Cora

About one and a half months ago, I wrote a post comparing the rise of indie publishing with the age of the pulps in the first half of the 20th century, since both eras were characterized by the writing and … Continue reading →

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A Kindle at the Bachmann Prize

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Cora

At the moment, the Tage der deutschsprachigen Literatur (Days of German Language Literature) are going on in the city of Klagenfurt in Austria, where they will conclude with the awarding of the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize tomorrow. Basically, the Bachmann Prize … Continue reading →

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Will the rise of e-books kill off genre fiction?

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Cora

If you’ve spent any time at all hanging out in the online science fiction and fantasy community, you will have noticed that SFF fans are always debating about something. Usually, they’re cycling through the same five topics or so every … Continue reading →

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